Posted on 06/13/2011 3:12:33 PM PDT by tobyhill
President Obama, in what he described as an "all-hands-on-deck strategy" to boost the economy, announced a new program Monday aimed at training 10,000 new American engineers every year.
The engineering announcement was one of several touted by the president during a visit Monday to North Carolina, where he toured a plant of energy-efficient lighting manufacturer Cree, Inc., and met with his jobs council to discuss the new initiatives.
Last week, the president announced a new training program in the manufacturing sector. The program he unveiled Monday would try to ensure U.S. engineering students have the skills to qualify for openings that companies sometimes struggle to fill.
"We're falling behind in the very fields we know are going to be our future. ... We must do better than that," Obama said.
Under the program, Obama said private companies will join the government to promote education in science, technology, engineering and math. They'll offer incentives to students to finish their degrees and help universities pay for their engineering programs.
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Plan would be new. He usually just has hope.
“We’re falling behind in the very fields we know are going to be our future. ... We must do better than that,” Obama said.
What does he mean by “we”? Does he have a mouse in his pocket?
He is an idiot along with his mouse.
EVERYTHING_HE_TOUCHES_TURNS_TO_SHITE_PING!!!
Would this be yet another case of title inflation, e.g. a garbage collector becomes a ‘sanitation engineer’?
Keeping engineering work here would probably help as well.
Worked that way for me.
Kids don't go to Engineering school for a really simple reason...no jobs on the other side of that heroic effort.
Pecuniary incentive changes that really fast.
Obama to announce new employment plan...
We need 10,000 engineers right away and trains too.
We need 10,000 dog catchers stat!
We need 20,000 college educated street sweepers!
We need 150,000,000 democrat voters on the double!
We need one golldamned plumber to fix the sink
in the oval office, it’s been gummed up since
bill Clinton used it last!
Statist Central planning only creates a false economy.
I’m just kind of curious....if you trained 10k more punks to be engineers...and in four years they graduate...they’d expect to find engineering jobs. If the ten thousad engineering jobs don’t exist today....who will hire Johnny Junior or Mandy in four years? The only answer? The US government. Who would pay for their salaries? The US tax payer. And what would they research that we aren’t already researching in the private sector? Hmmmm....that might be the $64k question.
The program he unveiled Monday would try to ensure U.S. engineering students have the skills to qualify for openings that companies sometimes struggle to fill.
So, the engineers we are graduation aren’t up to the
mark? Sounds like a problem in the educational system,
which the democrats have been shoveling money to like
mad for how long?
It is not the Government’s role to train Engineers any more than it is to subsidize “green” industries.
To barry the zero, I say:
Keep our borders secure, fight and defeat our enemies.
Other than that, don’t mess with things of which you have no knowledge nor understanding.
Graduation = graduating.
Aren’t there enough out-of-work engineers already?
My granddaughter graduated w/ honors as a mechanical engineer 2 yrs. ago.
She has been working in a daycare center while trying to land a job.
Finally got an engineering job last week.
Jobs are scarce.
This is what really frosts me about "Job Training". They never worry about employing the "trained" people. I guess the training creates the jobs.
Cut taxes on all business so whole industries will be motivated to return to the US and employ those engineers. Ban unions. Get government out of everybody's daily life. Unions and government siphon off profits, and increase product costs making our industries less competitive. This turn-around would be even more dramatic.
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